* Out the gate were our Board Elections. ​ Thank-you to Chris Hughes, my Vice-President,​ for making sure these were as smooth as possible. ​ For the first time Quelab went to a fully electronic vote. This allowed all of our members to vote easily from wherever they were (some from the other side of the planet) and Chris could tell us immediately if we had hit a quorum and who had won. This round we are excited to welcome to our Board Chris Zapatocky and Ray Finch. ​ This is Chris' first round on the Board and we expect him to bring fresh new ideas to the table. ​ Ray Finch has served on Quelab'​s board in the past. He has seen us grow and is familiar with the needs of a growing organization like Quelab. ​ I look to him for some strong thoughtful leadership. ​ Thank-you for being willing to join our team guys!

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* Many of you might be aware that Space Cadets has been busy working on our East Attic next to our wood shop. Anyone who has things stored up there should be labeling it and perhaps preparing to remove excess items. ​ For lease/​safety/​insurance reasons that space is for storage only.

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* As a Makerspace, Quelab is growing. ​ This growth is exciting as it offers us opportunities to acquire some very cool equipment with the right planning. ​ Twice now Darren Moody has found CNC plasma cutting machines that would make a lovely addition to our tools. ​ It is time for us to start preparing to purchase one. Planning and preparation will be key to this successfully happening! ​ Look for information on crowdfunding a savings account for this piece of equipment. ​ It looks like about $6,000.00 will be needed to buy and safely install one of these guys in our space. ​ Let's look to how this can happen so we can continue to grow and offer our members opportunities that cannot be gotten elsewhere!

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* On the conversation of tools: Bandit Gangwere attended the Aerospace auction this last week. A selection of tools and supplies were purchased with the vision that they would improve Quelab'​s offering of tools and equipment for our space, like several oscilloscopes and a variety of smaller pieces of equipment and supplies. ​ Bandit would like to give Quelab first choice to purchase via crowd-funding,​ so if you are interested in helping purchase these items for the space or would like to look at purchasing items for your own personal use, please contact Bandit Gangwere directly at bandit@cruzio.com. ​ Put Quelab in the subject line, please.

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* Lastly, I am excited to let everyone know that UNM will have a team of students using Quelab to build a rocket for their Senior Engineering rocketry project. ​ How cool is that? These students have a 6 week build time with them building seven segments for a 46 ft tall, 4 ft diameter rocket. I know the students are excited to share what they are building, but please be good hosts and make sure you don't touch their project without their permission. ​ Let's make Quelab a welcoming and safe place for these young engineers.

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* Paul Rosenburg - Eagle Scout e-waste project

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* April 22, Earth Day, @ Cherry Hills Library

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* Volunteers needed - supervisors of the kids deconstructing stuff, people to haul stuff back to Quelab

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* E-waste to benefit Quelab

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* Promotion through the scouts & Paul’s church, & Quelab channels

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* Collection to start an hour before the Take-Aparty event starts

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* If anyone from Quelab wants to promote the space with a table (3D printing, or anything else about the space)

* March 25 - “Flying for All” for people with various mobility problems. ​ Member Alice Shriver with 505ACcess will be presenting. ​ If anyone wants to run a table, that would be nice.

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Morgan has gotten feedback from previous visitors to our events, and they often think we are only 3D printing. It would be nice to expand and bring members’ projects to such demos.

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* Social Media: Rebecca Snyder

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* Looking at Yelp. If anyone wants to review us on Yelp, that would be great.

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* Assets: Darren Moody

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* Huge shoutout to Steven Hall. More cleaning of the Annex. ​ Anthro carts & tables by the library are gone, and he has gone through the donated plastics (Gaylords).

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* Picked up some cubicle walls to partition off the donations area.

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* Facilities: John Murray

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* John & Drew went on the roof & reconnected the swamp coolers (for positive ventilation for the welding shop)

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* Drew and I put 3 of the 4 swamp cooler on line to operate to blow fresh air in to the shop. The landlord'​s plumber had shut down the swamp coolers for the winter, and had remove the belts from the fans portion. ​ To obtain positive ventilation,​ these must be operational,​ although the pumps are not plugged in right now.

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* At the same time, the horsepower of each fan motor was recorded and will be used to determine the size of the exhaust fan which will eventually installed in the shop. This is a requirement for obtaining an occupancy permit.

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* Rental: Darren Moody

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* Rentals about the same; two large blue/white benches are available. Generating $140 a month

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* Area Captains

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* 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen

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* Shout out to Peter, Paul & Morgan for helping keep the area clean

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* Arcade - Troy Ross

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* Speaker wire run for the 5.1 sound system

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* Working on skim coat to make the walls pretty again

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* Now have a PS4 for the room

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* Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim

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* No report

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* Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker

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* Nothing new to report for fiber arts, except that I do want to run a dye/​batik/​photo-sensitive dye workshop when my schedule calms down.

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Rebecca has craft booking supplies if anyone is interested

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Bandit knows someone that can help train in the Juke machine in there

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* Laser: Craig Goldsmith

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* No problems reported with the Laser Cutter

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* We have enough money in the fund to purchase new honeycomb bed. Sent email last week about how to go about actually paying for the purchase (I can't lay out and be reimbursed);​ still waiting for a response from the President/​Treasurer

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* Reworking of room will start 2nd or 3rd week of March; will send notice to members when that starts

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* Need to beef up consistency and responsiveness of training, particularly for new members

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* Metal Shop: Eric Lee

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* A heavy duty industrial work table has been purchased at auction by John Anthes with assistance from Darren Moody. ​ The work table was transported from the auction to Quelab by Don "​Gonner"​ Menning. The table has been located in the metal shop and is to be used as the permanent work station area for the 3-axis CNC Mill (X-Carve). ​ The work table was paid for by John Anthes who is donating it to Quelab. ​ No reimbursement has been requested.